From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 19 0:59:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (stampede.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638BD14E82 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca14-50.ix.netcom.com [205.186.215.50]) by stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA25617; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:55:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.2/8.6.9) id AAA88257; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904190755.AAA88257@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: silvia.hip.berkeley.edu: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <371A0D28.61C11A7F@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> (pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Subject: Re: Time to split the ports collection? From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) References: <371935DD.A3B70644@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990417200704.A81975@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us> <37194DE3.D8719241@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990417201725.A82105@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us> <3719516E.4DFE82D8@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <199904181056.DAA83902@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <371A0D28.61C11A7F@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" * > * I don't want to update it, I can download individual ports from the web. * > * > You can download ports/Mk then. :) * > * * If there is a package to install, I'll install it, and probably * portlint should have a dependency on it. Otherwise, in the future, I * will not go into the difficulties I went in this time. Of course, I am * only reporting my problems in the hope that something good will come * from it, I have no interest in being melodramatic about it . See, the problem is that you CAN'T download individual ports without also getting the latest bsd.port.mk. It just won't work in many cases. We can install bsd.port.mk by default (even without the rest of the ports tree) but that doesn't solve the real problem. -PW To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message